On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:31:59 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 6/14/11 10:27 AM, Graham Fawcett wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:53:16 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >>> http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11 >>> >>> Destroy. >>> >>> >>> Andrei >> >> What's the expected payload format? A text/plain D source-file? A zip >> or tar archive? > > Text for now. > >> If an archive, what's the required directory layout? Should >> "dsource.foo.baz" be required to be in "/dsource/foo/baz.d" within the >> archive? > > I agree we need to address these in the future, and also binary > distributions (e.g. .di files + .a/.lib files). > >> And if not an archive, how to reasonably handle multi-file packages? > > Consider a library "acme" consisting of three files: widgets.d, > gadgets.d, fidgets.d in "http://acme.com/d/";. It also depends on the > external library monads on "http://nad.mo/d";. > > // User code: > pragma(lib, acme, "http://acme.com/d/";); import acme.widgets; > ... use ... > > // widgets.d > // Assume it depends on other stuff in the same lib // and on monads.d > pragma(lib, monads, "http://nad.mo/d/";); import acme.gadgets, > acme.fidgets, monads.io; > > This is all that's needed for the compiler to download and compile > everything needed.
So, to clarify: > pragma(lib, acme, "http://acme.com/d/";); ...establishes a "prefix" relationship: modules names prefixed with "acme." may be found at URLs prefixed with "http://acme.com/d/";. So we would expect to find: acme.widgets at http://acme.com/d/widgets.d acme.widgets.core.x at http://acme.com/d/widgets/core/x.d Correct? Graham
